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(investigations, elephant, commissioner, notice, bully, disobey, instead, carriage, multitude, maltreated)
Next, Gandhi called on the British official of ________ the Tirhut division in which the Champaran districtlay. “The commissioner,” Gandhi reports, “proceeded to ______ me and advised me forthwith to leave Tirhut.” Gandhi did not leave, ________he proceeded to Motihari, the capital of Champaran. Several lawyers accompanied him. At the railway station, a vast ________ greeted Gandhi. He went to a house and, using it as headquarters, continued his ________ A report came in that a peasant had been ________in a nearby village. Gandhi decided to go and see; the next morning he started out on the back of an________. He had not proceeded far when the police superintendent’s messenger overtook him and ordered him to return to town in his _______. Gandhi complied. The messenger drove Gandhi home where he served him with an official _______ to quit Champaran immediately. Gandhi signed a receipt for the notice and wrote on it that he would ________ the order. In consequence, Gandhi received a summons to appear in court the next day.

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Commissioner, bully, Instead, multitude, investigations, maltreated, elephant, carriage, notice, disobey

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